Shifting Gears   Baby Boomer…Member Life 2.0…Wife, Mother, Grammie…Bicyclist…GoldWinger…Mensan…Girl Scout…Reader…Knitter…Rotarian

When I left my pesky day job last year, I started recycling with a vengeance!  Anything and everything that previously went into the trash container was scrutinized for its ability to be recycled. I set up boxes in the laundry room and have made weekly trips to the local recycling center.  I figured I go [...]

Technically it’s still winter but when it’s mid-March and the temps approach 80, the trees are budding out and some flowers are blooming, I think it’s spring.  If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck….you get the picture!  It’s spring. I’m so ready to put away any clothes that remind me of winter [...]

One lesson I learned in parenting is that you do things differently after the first-born.  With that inaugural child you’re experimenting and so afraid that you’ll do something wrong or mess up that you go overboard.  By time the next one comes along, you don’t have the time or energy to worry about every little [...]

Many years ago, my mom gave me a refrigerator magnet that said “Daughters Make Nice Pets.”  She was blessed with two daughters and so was I – until I married Burl and was triple blessed with Cindy, Stacey and Annie.  I probably need to pass along the magnet to Ralph now since she has also [...]

A few weeks ago I was chosen by Michelle Sherwood with KSPR to test a product called Mighty MendIt.  If you’ve seen their ads on TV you know this product is highly touted as being able to glue just about anything together and will withstand winds of up to 100 MPH!  Quite frankly, if I’m [...]

I love vacations – no doubt about it!  Especially when I get to go to a place with warm weather and abundant sunshine.  And I love seeing new places, staying up late and sleeping late too.  Like all good things, this vacation ended when we returned home on Monday evening! Reality bit me first when [...]

Our bags are packed and soon we will leave for the airport to fly home.  We started our last evening here with mango margaritas poolside for Happy Hour.  It was so fun to meet a group of Rotarians from Long Beach, CA who had been participating in Project Amigo literacy project in the mountains of [...]

The last couple of days have been busy – and the Internet service at our B&B has been slow and sporadic – so my blogging has suffered.  But in the meantime we’ve been enjoying the sights and treasures of southern Mexico. Friday a group of up took a trip to Lake Chapala which is the [...]

Since our project to work on a soccer field was cancelled yesterday we used our time to do some shopping for the local kids.  With the excellent exchange rate right now we enjoyed a great time spending the club monies.  We went to the fabric store and purchased a couple of bolts of cotton-backed plastic [...]

We road-tripped yesterday to Amatain which is very near the town of Tequila.  First stop was at Casa Herradura which is a genuine hacienda that is also the headquarters for distilling and producing Casa Herradura tequila.  We quickly learned it is now owned by Jack Daniels (yep, they sold Jack Black in the gift shop!) [...]